Lindsay Lohan, who is set to testify in a court case brought by her girlfriend Samantha Ronson, has filed a motion requesting a judge's order banning the filming of her deposition.
She has also said that she doesn't want transcripts or other accounts made public, as the singer and actress fears that this would "unduly embarrass, oppress and burden her because of the private subject matter of the expected testimony and the virtual certainty that, unless access is significantly limited, the transcript and videotape of the deposition will be illegally exploited by the media". Her lawyers have cited as precedent an order which barred videotaped depositions in the Spears-Federline custody case. Such depositions are not public records, but Lohan fears that someone in the media would try to steal a tape if she were videoed giving her testimony.
All this relates to Ronson's litigation against her former lawyers, whom she claims inadequately represented her when she filed suits against a number of bloggers, including the ubiquitous Perez Hilton, after they claimed that she had planted drugs in Lohan's car. Attorneys representing the aforementioned Perez, aka Mario Lavandeira, brought a motion to dismiss that lawsuit, a motion granted by a judge who ordered Ronson to pay Lavandeira's legal fees; Ronson maintains this was because her lawyers didn't fight the case properly.